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Preventive diplomacy urgently needed to ensure lasting peace amid dangerous emerging flashpoints, Special Coordinator tells Security Council at 8648th meeting.

Preventive diplomacy urgently needed to ensure lasting peace amid dangerous emerging flashpoints, Special Coordinator tells Security Council at 8648th meeting.

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov told the Security Council that the occupation continues, and no progress has been made in realizing a negotiated two-state solution describing the situation as a “multi-generational tragedy for the peoples of this land.” UNIFEED

At the United Nations briefing in Geneva, Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the Office of the UN high Commissioner for Human Rights, raised concerns following the Turkish operation inside Syria. The Turkish army and Syrian auxiliaries launched a border operation on Wednesday. Air strikes and artillery fire targeted several border areas in northern Syria. OHCHR

“The possession of nuclear power should either be forbidden for all or permissible for all,” Turkish President Recep Erdogan said in his speech today at the United Nations General Debate. UNIFEED

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

During a Security Council meeting to discuss the Palestinian question, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said, “there is no other viable solution to end the conflict. Those who continue to support a two-State outcome must acknowledge that derailing that prospect means that Palestinians and Israelis are facing a grim future of perpetual occupation, endless violence and threats to regional stability.” UNIFEED

Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement of his plans to annex West Bank settlements if re-elected, a UN spokesperson said, “any Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction, administration, in the occupied West Bank is without any international legal effect.” UNIFEED

Rising violence, settlement expansion continue to spark Israeli-Palestinian tensions as talks remain stalled, top official tells Security Council at 8604th meeting.